The Tennis Girl : If a single picture ever conveyed the sexual liberation, permissive society and hostility towards norms and authorities of the 1970s, it would be the iconic poster of “The Tennis Girl”. Taken at the end of the long hot summer in September 1976

Kylie Minogue version is not sexy as she's clearly lifting her skirt up for you to look at her ass, not classy. The original gives the impression that she is accidentally lifting her skirt, much sexier.

it's funny how nuances like that play a big roll in how something is sexy. I was having a conversation last week about how I never found thong underwear sexy. It leaves nothing to the imagination, I've always found regular panties sexy not granny panties mind you but nice tight panties. I love how they contour nicely from the hips to the ass. A thong can't beat that.

I feel like I miss out on tons of pop art culture references like this because of .. well, not being alive for that long. Could someone start a thread with just all of the best pop culture art I need to see to understand every Family Guy ever .. or something?

Hey, this kind of permissive lust didn't even exist until the 1970's. Especially not in the nude sculptures of ancient Greece, the endless naked women of Renaissance art, or the the thriving pornography industry of the 1960's.

You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole.

This is a very important civil liberty that people disregard, and you can only understand it's importance when it's been removed from society.

Anyone remember that Real World episode where they went to Dubai and the chicks were wearing American clothing, and they got rocks thrown at them?

If you take a look at conservative countries, the ability for a woman to have control of their own body is a rarity. In these countries, women aren't allowed to make their own sexual decisions. They're not allowed to date, not aloud to sleep with anyone other than their determined husband. Control of a woman's sexuality is so sever that if a woman gets raped, she is imprisoned for improper sexual activity.

Even in India, which is far more moderate than surrounding countries, kissing in public is extremely rare. In fact, you will very, very rarely see kissing in a movie.

The pinnacle of the women's liberation movement is the woman's ability to express herself sexually.

He was just commenting on the intolerance to women snoring. In a conservative country, if you're a woman and you snore, they think that you want to be like a man, which is, of course, against their belief system.

I was born in the UK, but parents are from India and I remember going to the cinema to watch Indian films with them.

The only film I remember with a kiss was about some English woman who came to India to make a film about freedom fighters during the British Raj, the actors ended up taking control of a radio station to protest against the poor equipment given to soldiers which led to their friend dying.

I'm not sure it's as simple as "women controlling their bodies" vs. "women are not allowed to control their bodies".

What about the fact that women in America who express their sexuality in their dress are more likely to be victims of harassment and rape?

I think our laws have changed to allow more sexual expression, but our culture still has a long way to go before a woman can freely express her sexuality - and have that freedom respected - without being subjected to harassment.

To put it bluntly, the Sexual Revolution was an important step, but our culture has a lot of growing up to do before women are truly free to express themselves.

This is actually not quite true. I saw a woman wearing a short skirt (just above the knees) in Egypt once. I think she was probably the bravest person I have ever seen. There was a non stop barrage of cat calls and harassment on the way down the street.

While I agree with you that we have a long way to go, I think you severely underestimate how far we have come.

I could maybe see your point about equating this with liberation of women if the girl appeared as something other than a young, virile, portrait of fertility. In practice, it has much more to do with male sexual privilege than female expression. It seems as though men tend to find this picture much more inspiring than women. If she were conventionally unattractive, say, morbidly obese or unkempt, she would probably be criticized and people would want her to cover her body. Basically, this is the most hypocritical kind of liberation - it is designed primarily for sexually appealing women to be objects of male sexual desire.

The Tennis Girl : If a single picture ever conveyed the sexual liberation, permissive society and hostility towards norms and authorities of the 1970s, it would be the iconic poster of “The Tennis Girl”. Taken at the end of the long hot summer in September 1976or "Chick scratches nekked ass"

So, I was born in '75, but you need to figure by the time I was interested enough to sneak peaks at a Playboy or Penthouse it was more like '86 or '87. Around that time women were sporting landing strips and scaled down triangles that were shaved to about a 3 or 4 clipper attachment. Now and days it's all about going bald, which is ok, but it's nice to have something there to wipe the sweat from your brow when getting the job done ;)

I'm old enough to have seen full bushes when I came of age and I'm young enough to currently enjoy women who are well trimmed or completely smooth. I don't like the big bush. A woman's cleanly shaven love muffin is something to be enjoyed and appreciated.

Not that I have anything against sexy girls but this is so funny. This iconic picture would have been vomit worthy had she been cellulite covered and over weight. Not that I want to see the latter, i'm just saying how powerful being beautiful can be.

right. as a tennis playing female i must say this seems a little silly. I can't imagine that to be terribly comfortable. You get all hot and sweaty when you play tennis and chaffing would probably be an issue. Nowaday you can barely even find tennis skirts without built in breathable shorts.

I came here to wonder whether a staged shot of some guy's girlfriend using borrowed clothes and tennis equipment really represents anything at all about the 70s, then I read your comment and suddenly this ass-scratching photo's popularity made a little more sense.

well if you think about the extent to which a picture is staged, it takes all the fun out of admiring photography. in reality, this picture was completely staged; he probably made a girl walk back and forth lifting her skirt each time for hours until he got the shot just right.

If it's that strict, wouldn't it just fire you for browsing Reddit? Also, all the defense industry workers I've known had their network connections locked down so they couldn't browse to unauthorised sites.

If you circumvented a firewall that is almost certainly in breach of your contract and probably illegal. So then the NSFW tag really doesn't mean shit, because it's not what you're looking at. It's the fact that you are looking at something.

True. But having my gmail open or some huge white and blue text based site appears pretty harmless. Programmers are constantly surfing the web to "borrow" code or refresh themselves on the different base classes. PICS probably isn't the best subreddit for me to surf, but I'll occasionally have a news article with pictures open when I am eating lunch and no one will think anything of it. The NSFW tag usually helps me decide which links to click or not because my thumbnails are turned off.

The viewer is placed behind the court, perhaps even behind the fence, and the girl is facing away. This makes the viewer a voyeur, an admirer who is not confronted or denied. The girl herself is really just scratching her ass, but the fact that she's not wearing anything under there, and the fact that she doesn't care who knows make the image even more arousing. Her comfort with her own body as an object of sexual desire is what makes her a symbol.

three dogs, a rottweiler, a pit bull and a labrador retriever shared a cage in a kennel. they got to talking...

the rottie said "i'm here because i bit the mailman. i hated him from the first time i saw him, and i finally got outside and crushed his knee. they're gonna put me to sleep."

the pit bull said "me too. the neighbor boy hit a baseball over my fence, and when he came into the yard to retrieve it, i felt compelled to crush his head. the animal control people sentenced me to death." the pit bull then turned to the lab and asked "what are you in for?"

the lab said "my master left me alone with his cute 20 year-old mistress one morning, and she likes to do housework in the nude. i followed her around for two hours, and finally when she bent over to scrub underneath the toilet, i couldn't stand it anymore, so i mounted her from the rear and did her."

the rottie asked "so they're gonna put you to sleep?"

"oh no" replied the lab, "they're not gonna put me to sleep. i'm just here to get my nails trimmed."

I first saw this picture when I was about 4yrs old at my best friends house. It was hung in their den/office at the time. It was completely spellbinding and seemed to be such an incredibly audacious thing to have hanging on the wall (although I must admit that seeing a woman's naked bum was a major life event for me as a 4yr old boy). I had completely forgotten about it and never knew it was 'iconic' until now. Thanks ... really great post.

Do you know how fucking hard it is to get a copy of this goddamn poster? DO YOU?! If you know a seller, athena posters went out of business, and the only one sold now is and 'art piece' so it's not the photo but a shopped thing. BAH.

I know. That's the oddity of the internet censorship in Oz. It has no reflection on normal society. Hell, you even hear f-bombs on free-to-air TV of an evening. I hate the way movies are edited back here in the states after having lived in Oz for a long time.

The Tennis Girl : If a single picture ever conveyed the sexual liberation, permissive society and hostility towards norms and authorities of the 1970s, it would be the iconic poster of “The Tennis Girl”. Taken at the end of the long hot summer in September 1976

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